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'This copy happened to be one of the 500 that didn't go to a school or a library and somehow a private collector got their hands on it at the time it was published. Joe Maddalena, executive vice president at Heritage, said: 'Not only is the most expensive Harry Potter book ever sold, it's the most expensive commercially published 20th-century work of fiction ever sold. With auction house fees added on the final figure paid by an anonymous buyer to £356,000. Bidding started at £50,000 and huge competition drove up the price until the hammer went down at £287,000 ($380,000).